If with old love of you, dear Hills! I share

New love of many a rival image brought

From far, forgive the wanderings of my thought:

Nor art thou wronged, sweet May! when I compare[176]

Thy present birth-morn with thy last,[177][178] so fair, 5

So rich to me in favours. For my lot

Then was, within the famed Egerian Grot

To sit and muse, fanned by its dewy air

Mingling with thy soft breath! That morning too,

Warblers I heard their joy unbosoming 10